這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “IRA”
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- 2IRA · retirement savings account (US)個人退休帳戶Think of a jar you fill a little at a time, with a label on it that says the year you stop working.
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IRA
nHere the three letters are a name, not a thing. They stand for one organisation in one place at one time: Ireland and Britain in the twentieth century. You say the letters one by one, and you put 'the' in front, the way you do with any single named body.
這裡的三個字母是一個名字，不是一種東西。它專指二十世紀愛爾蘭與英國之間的那一個組織。所以前面要加 the，就像所有專指某個團體的名稱一樣。唸的時候也是一個字母一個字母唸。可以想成：拼字母的是名字，黏成一個字的是帳戶。
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IRA · retirement savings account (US)
nThink of a jar you fill a little at a time, with a label on it that says the year you stop working. Money goes in and stays in. The tax office agrees to wait and count it later, when you finally open the jar.
一個貼了標籤的罐子，標籤上寫的是「不上班以後」。錢一點一點放進去，就放著不動。國稅局同意先不算這筆錢的稅，等你真的打開罐子那天再算。這個「延後」就是 IRA 這個帳戶存在的理由。